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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-23 14:46:15

WhatsApp partners with PayU to roll out prepaid mobile recharges in India; it remains a marginal payments player in India despite launching payments in 2020 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/what

WhatsApp adds prepaid phone recharges in India as its payments usage still lags | TechCrunch
WhatsApp is rolling out prepaid phone recharges to its 500 million users in India via PayU.

@frankel@mastodon.top
2026-05-23 09:07:56

#Java records & compact constructors
mikemybytes.com/2022/02/16/jav

Java records & compact constructors
Java records should be no longer considered as a “new concept”. Introduced in early 2020 (with version 14) have already been adopted in many projects and organizations. Yet, while we all know that they provide getters, equals, hashCode, and toString for free, there is one feature that still feels a bit unknown. Let’s see how compact constructors can help us write more idiomatic code. Record construction Recent versions of Java come with concise syntax for declaring records:

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-04-20 17:07:13

Joe diGenova,
a GOP lawyer who represented Donald Trump in his bogus election fraud cases in 2020
and a longtime fixture in right-wing media,
complained in April that then-Attorney General Pam Bondi had “nixed” him from a role overseeing a planned investigation of Trump’s political enemies.
Now, just weeks after her removal, he’s reportedly ensconced in that position.
The Trump Department of Justice, through grand juries in Florida, is targeting a wide array of…

GOP lawyer Joe diGenova, now running Trump’s “Grand Conspiracy” probe, said Bondi had “nixed” him from the role

@crell@phpc.social
2026-05-07 19:17:49

The problems with efficiency, by @…
tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

Just Too Efficient

@roelgrif@mstdn.social
2026-05-07 17:28:17

Ik krijg wel weer een beetje #AuraTimenVibes van het RIVM momenteel.
Weten jullie het nog? #geenredentotzorg #hanta

Aura Timen in Februari 2020 voor een scherm met heel veel rode bolletjes in China van alle besmettingshaarden, zegt: "Dus op dit moment is er geen reden om je zorgen te maken om het coronavirus" (still uit een filmpje, play button is zichtbaar)
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-17 06:12:04

India's Telegram ban until June 22 over exam paper leak concerns is a terrible look for the country, sets a precedent, and could happen again if unchallenged (Nikhil Pahwa/@nixxin)
x.com/nixxin/status/2067100573

Nikhil Pahwa (@nixxin) on X
A few additional thoughts on the Telegram ban in India: 1. Is this a permanent ban? It's unusual for the Indian government to issue a press release about the telegram ban: the precedence that I remember is when Chinese apps were banned in India in June 2020 including tiktok. A

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-06-15 11:42:02

from my link log —
The alias method for efficiently sampling from a discrete probability distribution.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_me
saved 2020-07-02

Alias method - Wikipedia

@vosje62@mastodon.nl
2026-04-28 17:11:39

/3
Hieronder een paar links voor verdere info.
Opvallend daarbij is dat sommige voorlichting al niet meer beschikbaar is (website is weg) of dat het enige en laatste nieuws uit 2020 😉
Slimme verkeerslichten: hoe werken ze?
#TalkingTraffic #iVRI #verkeer

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-03-30 17:42:02

from my link log —
What can you preseed when installing Debian?
blog.einval.com/2020/02/24#wha
saved 2020-02-27

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-05-10 17:42:13

from my link log —
Yak shaving #ifdef-style conditional compilation in Rust.
bitshifter.github.io/2020/05/0

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-06-06 17:42:02

from my link log —
The old Internet died and we watched and did nothing.
buzzfeednews.com/article/katie
saved 2019-12-31

The Old Internet Died And We Watched And Did Nothing
It’s 2020 — do you know where your content is?

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-04-01 17:42:01

from my link log —
ARX, Arthur and RISC OS.
rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/
saved 2020-08-21